Technology

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

California’s “Addictive Feeds” Law Violates Teens’ First Amendment Rights

A California law that prohibits teens from receiving recommended social media content from other social media users violates their First Amendment rights, EFF argued this week.The case,Meta v. Bonta, ...

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

Article URL:https://flet.dev/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746290Points: 6# Comments: 2

2026-09-17

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review....

2026-09-17

Slashdot 7/10 ?

Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data

Ars Technica reports: Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted...

2026-09-17

Ars Technica 7/10 ?

Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.

2026-09-17

The Register 7/10 ?

DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028

Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record

2026-09-17

Hackaday 7/10 ?

Keep Your Back Cool While Others Melt

With an El Niño event in full swing those of us in the northern hemisphere have just had a roasting hot summer, and those in the southern are about to…read more

2026-09-17

Wired 7/10 ?

The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Bend

Article URL:https://bend-lang.com/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163Points: 128# Comments: 47

2026-09-17

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable ...

2026-09-17

Ars Technica 7/10 ?

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

2026-09-17

The Register 7/10 ?

Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar

Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

Article URL:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmzezj5e18xxoComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746117Points: 40# Comments: 19

2026-09-17

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?

How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incid...

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Astra for Law

Article URL:https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745940Points: 35# Comments: 20

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Plugin4Shell – Zero Click RCE Vulnerability found in top four coding agents

Article URL:https://www.air.security/blog-posts/plugin4shellComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745809Points: 4# Comments: 2

2026-09-17

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

2026-09-17

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul...

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Everybody's Lost Their Minds

Article URL:https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745570Points: 42# Comments: 17

2026-09-17

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs

Article URL:https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-09-16/flock-cameras-guardrails-missouri-kehoeComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745419Points: 30# Comments: 10

2026-09-17